Up to 200,000 protesting in Brazil. Initial cause was bus fares increasing about $0.10 USD, but the violent police response and other complaints, including the amount of money being spent for the World Cup and Olympics (instead of anything the populace needs) has fueled the fires._________________“Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation”
yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Basically, this started with a number of liberal pastors protesting (peacefully) in front of the NC general assembly, protesting the agenda that the republican senate and governor have been pushing through (Lowering taxes on corporations, raising it on lower class people, doing @#%@ by voice votes than saying "YUP IT PASSED" when an early non-voice vote failed, and even in the voice-vote it's clear there are more Nays than Aye's, etc.), mostly with the pastors sitting in in civil disobedience (and allowing themselves to be arrested). It's grown far beyond that, though.

I admit I'm posting this 'cause one of the pastors arrested is one of the pastors at the church I grew up with (And a church of which I'm still pretty proud of, even if my views have wandered). I'm not surprised: She was always a *fierce* believer in social justice._________________"No, but evil is still being --Is having reason-- Being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being... Like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, is reason."
-Ed, from Digger

The most interesting part is the GOP's reaction. Instantly they tried to brand this as an "outsider" movement and downplay it as a bunch of hippies, the GOP's ancient nemesis.
The reality is that these legislators are voting on initiatives that originate out of state and aren't supported by the broad and representative sampling of residents that makes up the protestors.
Either the lawmakers don't care to know about that, or they just don't care.

The most interesting part is the GOP's reaction. Instantly they tried to brand this as an "outsider" movement and downplay it as a bunch of hippies, the GOP's ancient nemesis.
The reality is that these legislators are voting on initiatives that originate out of state and aren't supported by the broad and representative sampling of residents that makes up the protestors.
Either the lawmakers don't care to know about that, or they just don't care.

Almost CERTAINLY the later. It really makes me sad seeing what's going on in my home state. I'm glad there are people standing up and fighting against it.

I sort of have to worry about what's going on in my CURRENT state. Gods, I hope Cucinelli doesn't get the governorship..._________________"No, but evil is still being --Is having reason-- Being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being... Like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, is reason."
-Ed, from Digger

It’s the documentary that audiences and film critics are eating up.
In a covert six-month mission to expose the inside world of school lunches, 11-year-old Zachary Maxwell made “Yuck: A 4th Grader’s Documentary About School Lunch” when he was a fourth-grader at a New York City public school.

Armed with hidden cameras, the precocious filmmaker went undercover to document dozens of lunches he was served at school.

During Zachary’s investigation, he compared descriptions of lunch items on the school-provided menu with secretly recorded video of what he was actually being served.

Agreed. And really, those patties got everything a growing boy needs: fat group, gristle group, hair group, minced unspeakable horror group..._________________The older I get, the more certain I become of one thing. True and abiding cynicism is simply a form of cowardice.

I have no problems eating mechanically separated chicken patties. In fact, with some fast food places it's preferable to their premium alternative which is usually dried out from being under a heat lamp too long.

My high school had really good food. So good that when the bell rang, people would literally run for the cafeteria so they could get in line before it was all gone.

It probably helps that the cafeteria was run by the Foods and Home Ec students.

They made a mean teriyaki salmon burger._________________The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. - William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum

The lunch ladies at my schools tried very hard, but hey couldn't do much with their budget. I'll never forget one of them really pushing me to go on to college because, "You don't want to end up like me." It was so weird to learn they got paid do little, since everyone thought they were awesome and loved them.

Navy food was fantastic. Burgers to order with freshly sauteed onions and your choice of four kinds of cheese. And onion soup and omg so many good things! Also bad things like Pepper Pot soup (No one could ever explain exactly what it was supposed to be, and it tasted god awful) and bagel dogs (Which you'd think could be made to taste good, but not in the navy.) I miss that so much; I wish cafeterias out in the real world were a more common thing, since they're efficient and can be tasty if run properly. The nearby university's cafeteria is open to non-college students, but it takes me over an hour to get there and over an hour to get back, so I never go...and buffets are too expensive._________________::lesser crisis mode::